The soul requires purity, but purity is not it; requires justice, but justice is not that; requires beneficence, but is somewhat better; so that there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature, to urge a virtue which it enjoins.

For the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature, since it then does not give somewhat from itself, but it gives itself, or passes into and becomes that man whom it enlightens; or, in proportion to that truth he receives, it takes him to itself.

Souls such as these treat you as gods would; walk as gods in the earth, accepting without any admiration your wit, your bounty, your virtue even, — say rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper blood, royal as themselves, and over-royal, and the father of the gods.

Care of the soul is a continuous process that concerns itself not so much with "fixing" a central flaw as with attending to the small details of everyday life, as well as to major decisions and changes.

Care of the soul may not focus on the personality or on relationships at all, and therefore it is not psychological in the usual sense.

Soul coalesces into the mysterious philosophers' stone, that rich, solid core of personality the alchemists sought, or it opens into the peacock's tail-a revelation of the soul's colors and a display of its dappled brilliance.

It is this soul which, in Christian mystics, ascends towards the Godhead, sparking the debate as to whether it remains intact during mystical union (as a sense of identity) or whether it is, finally, dissolved in, or subsumed by, God.

From the perspective of soul, spirit is many perspectives - all contained within soul itself and yet always trying to break free and impose one or other of its perspectives on soul as it were from outside.

It creates a correspondingly delusional world for itself which, deprived of its connection with a personal and personified counterpart, opens on to the soul's depths, as abysmal as deep space and as impersonal as the subatomic realm.

deoxy.org /soulbody.htm (6382 words)

Soul of the World(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)

Astrology, the science of seeing the soul of the sky, is part of a greater vision: that eye that opens each thing like a poetic treasure, perceiving at work within it the divine imagination that animates the world.

According to Hillman the anima mundi or soul of the world is to be perceived directly in the "inherent intelligibility" of forms in the world.

According to Hillman, this expressiveness of physical forms is the presence of soul in the world, and it is as much present in architecture, technology, and designed interiors as it is in the places and organisms of the natural world.

The imaginal worlds are not simply in the mind but within the multilayered world where imagination is an organ of perception that can open to the world-soul to Sophianic depths and draw the individual to new maturity and insights.

For Sardello, world and soul must be brought continuously into relationship such that soul infuses all aspects of world and world infuses all potential of soul.

Soul is thus a capacity to perceive through the heart; it is that capacity which allows the world to be experienced in its emblematic, symbolic, hieratic, inter-relational character (LandS 177).

This paper will survey the history of the idea of the WorldSoul in Western thought, the epistemologies associated with it, how it went into eclipse with the rise of the mechanistic worldview of the Scientific Revolution, and how it is now reemerging as a cosmological, psychological, and cultural idea.

But in addition to the cosmological dimension, the idea of the WorldSoul suggests an "epistemology of sameness" in which we are able to know the universe only because we are an embodiment of living nature itself.

In this sense, the harmony of the WorldSoul points toward an inclusive worldview in which aesthetics, ecology, ethics, mathematics, economics, science, art, and epistemology are not separate, but inherently related areas.

cosmopolis.com /files/world-soul.html (1879 words)

Soul of the World (2)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)

For them, the world is not only a physical location, a structure in which they exist, it is always also a place in the imagination.

Rather, living as they did in a cosmos in which imagination and world were fused in an indivisible unity, I believe that the Chaldean astrologer-priests were probably capable of directly attuning themselves to the stars, just as we, at a cruder level, are capable of sensing the quality of a particular tree, place, or person.

Astrology — the science of seeing the soul of the sky — is part of a greater vision: that eye that opens each thing like a poetic treasure, perceiving at work within it the divine imagination that animates the world.

The latter is of and for the earth, the former is of and for the Soul itself.

The spiritual world, as it is generally mapped out to us, appears but a few degrees in advance of this one, on the same general plane, if we are to believe the tales told us concerning it, while the fact is, that world is not like this in any respect.

A Soul is immaterial, as of the nature of Think, hence needs no stomach to digest food, lungs to breathe air, legs for locomotion, and so forth, for all these are principles of the Soul, with mere out-created organs.

This was understood by the ancient philosophers and the alchemists who referred to the spiritual essence of the world as the anima mundi, the “Soul of the World.” They regarded the WorldSoul as a pure ethereal spirit diffused throughout all nature, the divine essence that embraces and energizes all life in the universe.

The WorldSoul is not a fixed or defined substance, but a living substance made out of the hopes, dreams, and deepest imaginings of humanity and of all creation.

And because we have denied the world its divinity, it is slowly dying.

As we approach the work of WorldSoul Retrieval Day what I have been encouraging people to do is really consider their world altar--which is an altar separate and distinct from your mesa, teallach, or other altars you may work with--as an altar that is a "transpersonal" altar, rather than a personal or cultural altar.

Instead, the invitation of WorldSoul Retrieval Day is to align your individual or community shamanic practice to a spirit, and to carry this spirit with you into your traditional ceremonies; to hold and work with these energies how you see fit.

This may be an actual altar in the natural world that becomes a shrine, an altar in the center of your ceremonial room, or simply an altar that one "builds" and consecrates within one's inner vision and heart.

In the Chaldaean cosmology the highest world is beyond the cosmic sphere (hyperkosmios or hyperouranios)[12] and is called the fiery cosmos or the "Empyrean" realm (kosmos pyrios or empyrios).[13]

The World-Soul of Plato became the object of extraordinarily complex and far-reaching speculations in subsequent Platonic and other Greek philosophy, but it always retained its role as the boundary of the cosmos and the mediator between the cosmos and the realm beyond.

And, conversely, the fact that in Mithraic iconography Oceanus-- the boundary of the world-- is entwined by a serpent provides remarkable support for my claim that the serpent-entwined leontocephaline also symbolizes the cosmic boundary-- and hence the Platonic World-Soul-- as indicated by the Barberini painting.

www.well.com /user/davidu/eighthgate.html (2512 words)

World Soul Inc.(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)

WorldSoul Inc. is a house and hiphop dance company in New York City lead by Brian "footwork" Green.

Right now, WorldSoul put their emphasis on house dance because house is the least known dance style.

WorldSoul has currently their own dance classes at a studio "Fazil" in Manhattan.

www.msu.edu /user/okumurak/dancers/worldsoul.html (244 words)

Saudi Aramco World : The Soul of Kazakhstan(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)

Kazakhs, as bearers of the knowledge of their own heritage, are once again entering the arena of world history, and they are worthy of the interest and attention of the world's mainstream cultures.

Thus the world of people and the world of objects were bound inseparably in the yurt and by the yurt.

Musical instruments are an acoustical embodiment of the traditional "three worlds" of the Kazakh spiritual universe: upper, middle, and lower.

Even as the Ideal World which environs the sensible world fills this last with the plenitude and universal variety of forms, so also the sun, enfolding all in his light, accompanies everywhere the birth and development of creatures, for these are many and diverse, and their number corresponds to that of the stars.

The forty "Assessors" who stand in the region of Amenti as the accusers of the Soul before Egyptian Osiris, belong to the same class of deities as the Lipika, and might stand paralleled, were not the Egyptian gods so little understood in their esoteric meaning.

From Gods to men, from Worlds to atoms, from a star to a rush-light, from the sun to the vital heat of the meanest organic being -- the world of Form and Existence is an immense chain, whose links are all connected.

Along the way, he debunks popular notions of soul (he has been known to say, "It is not a pet that we care for.") He carefully dismantles pervasive, romantic notions of spiritual love and leads the reader into a new way of imagining individual nature and soulful relationships.

Intimate relationships are transformed when what connects two people is felt as the soul of the world and not memories nor fantasy.

This gap is bridged in the best possible way through meeting the other person, not soul to soul, but through coming together in the place of the WorldSoul as mediator.

The departed has an iluy neshama- his soul is elevated in the next world raise his soul in olam habaah.

The biggest iluy neshama elevation of the soul neshama is learning gemara to merit the loss.My father passed away and as Hebrew tradition we say Kaddish for the deceased for a year after the death of a loved one and every year on his yorzeit.

I'm Soul, and this is my dream: A nice tune on a jazz funk influenced day.

A World Without End, my first full length offering, was birthed from this sound.

Got Me Holdin' On, an infectious love song with sultry female vocals infusing warmth into the 70's style guitar and bass instrumentation, is ironically followed up by the hard edged Love is Gone, a hard knocking tune that takes a sharp look at our society and the realization that everything aint alright.